Mediterranean Cafe and tapas bar with pastas, specials and lively after-hours crowd. Specials, occasional live music, atmospheric space.
Price: $$
Lunch weekdays, dinner nightly
Intimate, relaxed (and newly renovated) restaurant, with darker setting downstairs and new banquet room upstairs. Go midweek for “Wine Down Wednesday.” Extensive wine list, tasty tapas. 1409 E. Cary St., 643-0911. Europarichmond.com.